Dealing with Life and Goal Achievement

We’re all busy. Life doesn’t necessarily lend itself to achieving your personal or business goals. If you learn these simple time management tools, you will achieve anything you desire, much faster than you would if you waited around for “when I have time”.

Time is given to us at 60 seconds to the minute, 60 minutes to the hour, 24 hours in the day. Nobody has more time than anyone else. Successful people and unsuccessful people have the same amount of time. What’s the difference? The difference is in how they use it. Successful people have mastered the tools and techniques to get more accomplished in the time they have. They know the rules: “You can Make Excuses or You Can Make Progress, But You Can’t Do Both”!

Have you noticed how some people, and indeed some organizations, seem to be ‘aligned’, in that they are really congruent (i.e., committed to and having their total energy focused on) in what they are doing. These individuals are often described as ‘having charisma’, ‘knowing what they are about, and are rarely deflected from going for what they want. Signs of aligned organizations are that there are few internal politics, they focus on the customers and getting the job done efficiently, and everyone knows their role and what is expected of them. One of the strategies of Personal Success Mastery called the “Logical Levels” can help both individuals and organizations to achieve this kind of alignment to achieve their goals. Let’s explore this strategy with an example.

When individuals feel they cannot achieve their goal or mission, they might make the statement: “I can’t do that here”. They seem defeated before they even start. Maybe you have made this statement at some point in your life and did not consider its impact on your options to get what you wanted. Using the “Logical Levels Model”, let’s consider six possible interpretations of this statement:

If your emphasis is on “here”, it implies that there is something about the place or the environment e., You could do it elsewhere, but not “here”? A more empowering and relevant question would be “where” could you do it?

If your emphasis is on “that”, it implies that you don’t know what behaviors to do. A more empowering and relevant question would be “what”? i.e., “what” do I do in this situation?

If your emphasis is on “do”, it implies that you don’t have the skills/ abilities/capabilities to do it. You don’t know “how” to do it.

If your emphasis is on “can’t”, it implies that you don’t believe you can do it, and/or it is not important to you and doesn’t fit with your values. In other words, you don’t have reasons “why” to do it.

If the emphasis is on ‘I’, it implies that you are not the sort of person to do this, that it doesn’t fit with your “identity” or sense of self “Who” are you to do this)

A further possibility is that it doesn’t fit with your sense of purpose or your Purpose is about considering “who else” is affected.

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